Finnveden has more exchanges, pledges, sales and gifts evidenced in writing up until 1420, after which Jämtland has more written sales than Finnveden.This dominance of Jämtland sales continues until the end of the century. Constant throughout both centuries, however, is that more exchanges, gifts and pledges were issued in Finnveden than in Jämtland. If we compare the curves representing the sales in Jämtland with the total number of charters per decade according to Diagram1in Chapter 2, above, we can establish that more than half of all preserved charters between 1440 and 1500are sales confirmed in writing in Jämtland. Large parts of the barely-half that remain of the total number of charters consist of charters about land disputes and other property disputes, and charters resulting from disputes. In Finnveden on the other hand, gifts and sales constitute large parts of the total number of charters. These forms ie sales and gifts, fluctuate from1350 but dominate all the time over other preserved forms, approximately as much as the sales in Jämtland fluctuate but still dominate from1400. In Jämtland it concerned a redistribution of land between buyer and seller which, in any case in the 15th Century, stayed within the peasantry. In Finnveden it was not the aristocracy that acquired donations of land; rather, large sections of it (chantries) disappeared to Nydala Monastery. Gifts to the monastery decreased during the second half of the 15th Century while the sales increased, the interpretation of which can be that the land stayed, to a greater extent, within the aristocracy than it had done previously. In Finnveden, exchanges and pledges were generally maintained at a constant level, even though there were different forms of loan where land was used as security (see Chapter 6).The exchanges and pledges are represented throughout the entire investigation period which shows that they were practicable transaction forms for the aristocracy, since they were not curtailed by pre-emptive rights. Even so, exchanges were curtailed by a prohibition which prevented nobles from exchanging land with peasants. For Jämtland, only a few pledges were maintained and I have not included l e g a l a c q u i s i t i o n , l a n d m a r k e t s a n d m o n e t i s at i o n 280
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